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Lokmanya Shikshan Sanstha v. State of Maharashtra and Ors.

Bombay HC8 Aug 2025WP/12867/2024

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Bombay HC writ petition (WP 12867/2024, Lokmanya Shikshan Sanstha v State of Maharashtra, Coram Sonak & Jain JJ., 13 October 2025) disposed with directions on expeditious hearing of change reports pending about 25 years before the Charity Commissioner; petitioners may apply for expeditious hearing, to be decided within two months; earlier expediting application had been rejected; no costs.

What did the court decide?

Petition disposed of with directions: the Petitioners may apply to the Charity Commissioner for expeditious hearing of the change reports; any such application to be disposed of within two months of its making; the Charity Commissioner to consider taking up all the pending change reports; no costs. ¶17

Lokmanya Shikshan Sanstha vs State of Maharashtra and Ors. — Bombay HC (2025) — LawSathi Research

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Issue for consideration

Whether the Charity Commissioner should take up and decide expeditiously the petitioners' change reports, which have been pending for about 25 years, without out-of-turn adjudication.

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Court's answer

The Petitioners may apply to the Charity Commissioner for expeditious hearing on the change reports; if such an application is made, it should be disposed of within two months of its making.

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Ratio / Principle

The petitioners' submission that all change reports cannot be kept pending for 25 years and should be decided expeditiously appears prima facie reasonable and should be considered by the Charity Commissioner taking up all these change reports.

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Writ Petition No. 12867 of 2024 (Lokmanya Shikshan Sanstha & Ors. v. State of Maharashtra & Ors.), High Court of Judicature at Bombay (Civil Appellate Jurisdiction), Coram M. S. Sonak & Jitendra Jain, JJ., disposed of on 13 October 2025 without costs. The petitioners' change reports had been pending with the Charity Commissioner for about 25 years, and their application for expeditious hearing had been rejected on the ground that change reports submitted by some respondents had to be decided first. Observing that the petitioners were not seeking out-of-turn adjudication and that their submission that all change reports cannot be kept pending for 25 years appeared prima facie reasonable, the Court permitted the petitioners to apply to the Charity Commissioner for expeditious hearing and directed that any such application be disposed of within two months of its making, with the Charity Commissioner to consider taking up all these change reports.

Lokmanya Shikshan Sanstha v. State of Maharashtra and Ors.

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